Tomasz Krakowiak percussionist, composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

. During the last few years, Krakowiak has performed and recorded with artists such as Mike Hansen, John Oswald

John Oswald (composer)

John Oswald is a Canadian composer, saxophonist, media artist and dancer. His best known project is Plunderphonics, the practice of making new music out of previously existing recordings .-Philosophy:Oswald coined the term "plunderphonics" to describe his craft in a paper called which he...

, Ireneusz Socha

Ireneusz Socha

Ireneusz Socha . Drummer, Composer. Co-editor of DRUT – one of Poland's first artzines. The mastermind behind Kirkut-Koncept – a group performing original compositions bordering on rock song, cabaret, ethnic music and experimental...

, Kaffe Matthews, Mike Snow, Alessandro Bosetti, Ute Völker, Phil Minton

Phil Minton

Phil Minton is a jazz/free-improvising vocalist and trumpeter.Minton is a highly dramatic baritone who tends to specialize in literary texts: he has sung lyrics by William Blake with Mike Westbrook's group, Daniil Kharms and Joseph Brodsky with Simon Nabatov, and extracts from James Joyce's...

, Paul Dutton

Paul Dutton

Paul Dutton is a Canadian poet, novelist, essayist, and oral sound artist.-Early life and career:A member of the legendary Four Horsemen sound poetry quartet , along with Rafael Barreto-Rivera, Steve McCaffery, and the late bpNichol, Dutton married his soundsinging oralities and harmonica-playing...

, John Butcher

John Butcher (musician)

John Butcher is an English tenor and soprano saxophone player who has lived in London since the late 1970s. He began playing at the University of Surrey where he was studying physics...

, Gert-Jan Prins

Gert-Jan Prins

Gert-Jan Prins is a Dutch musician active in free improvisation.Initially a free jazz percussionist, Prins now focuses on producing and manipulating sound, especially white and pink noise, using a collection of custom-built FM radio transmitters and receivers, similar to the instruments of...

, Pau Torres

Pau Torres

Pau Torres musician, composer who has released several records on Testing Ground, Frozen Elephant Music and Etude Records...

 and others throughout Europe

Europe

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 and North America

North America

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 e.g. Musica Genera Festival, Victoriaville FIMAV, AudioArt Festival, Exploratory Music from Poland. Influenced by experimental and electroacoustic practices, Krakowiak's sounds are explorations of different sonoristic drum qualities. He currently lives in Toronto

Toronto

Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...

, Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

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Selected discography

solo

• "A/P" [Bocian Records BR03] 2011
• "La Ciutat Ets Tu" [etuderecords015] 2008
• "Vakar gerem keturiese prie misko, ant senu, nebenaudotu veikiancio metro begiu [Perineum#17] 2005

groups

• Rampersaud/Shaw/Martin/Neal/Krakowiak - "Halcyon Science 130410" [Barnyard Records, BR0323] 2011
• MiMo - "No Exit" (locked groove LP) 2010
• Joda Clément/Tomasz Krakowiak - "no one is there" compost and height 2010
• Ireneusz Socha/Tomasz Krakowiak - KITS2 "Four Years In Pieces" [dembitzer] 2008
• Mike Hansen/Tomasz Krakowiak - Relay [Spool Records, Field4] 2004
• John Butcher/Mike Hansen/Tomasz Krakowiak - Equation [Spool Records, Line19] 2003
• Ireneusz Socha/Tomasz Krakowiak - KITS [dobosz/dembitzer, split] 2002

External links

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